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(Music plays.) Hi! I'm Chris Meyer and I want to share with you one of our favorite tricks. It's a technique for adding the glowing highlights and more richly saturated colors that are many people associate with footage that was originally shot on film. Now this trick originated as a way of improving 3D renders. You would be surprised how flat a 3D render can look without any additional treatment but in reality this same trick can be used on almost any footage. Footage shot on DV, HDV, even footage that was originally shot on film.

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One of Chris Meyer's favorite tricks is a technique for adding the glowing highlights and richly saturated colors often associated with footage shot on film. This trick originated as a way to compensate for the flatness of unaltered 3D renders, but it can be used to improve any source video, whether shot on DV, HDV, or even film. The effect can be achieved in many video editing and motion graphics applications using the same basic approach: duplicate the source footage, mix it back on top of itself using blend modes, then apply a blur or similar effect to the duplicate footage. In Adding a Filmic Glow to Your Footage Using After Effects, Chris shows a variety of approaches for setting up a filmic glow in After Effects.

Welcome

(Music plays.)Hi! I'm Chris Meyer and I want to share with you one of our favorite tricks.It's a technique for adding the glowing highlights and more richly saturated colorsthat are many people associate with footage that was originally shot on film.Now this trick originated as a way of improving 3D renders. You would besurprised how flat a 3D render can look without any additional treatment but inreality this same trick can be used on almost any footage. Footage shot on DV,HDV, even footage that was originally shot on film.

The core of this technique involves duplicating the source footage, mixing itback on top of itself using blending modes and then applying a blur or similartreatment to the duplicate footage. So let's dive in and see exactly how you do this.

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